A teenage girl is suing a former New York City police detective who allegedly forced her to work as a prostitute. The lawsuit says Wayne Taylor, a former narcotics detective, forced the young runaway to work as a prostitute from the age of 13. The New York Post reported. She is suing Taylor and the New York Police Department for $25 million.
Taylor, who pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping, served 3 1/2 years in prison before he was released in January, the newspaper said.
Friday, 14 October 2011
Meet Rick 'the Hipster Cop'
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Fight War Not Wars
"I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it" she said.
"I think that's what he would have wanted".
- Bring our troops home
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(Thanx Chris!)
Beth Orton - Live PA, Södra Teatern, Stockholm, SE: P3 Live - SR 1999-09-19
Performers:
Howard Gott: Violin
Sarah Willson: Cello
Ted Barnes: Guitars
Sean Read: Keyboards
Sebastian Steinburg: Bass
Matt Johnson: Drums
Tracklist:
01 [00:00] "Love Like Laughter" (3:15)
02 [03:15] "Stars All Seem To Weep" (4:32)
03 [07:47] "Best Bit" (4:32)
04 [12:19] "Pass In Time" (7:40)
05 [19:49] "She Cries Your Name" (4:56)
06 [24:45] "Sugar Boy" (4:17)
07 [29:02] "Sweetest Decline" (4:46)
08 [33:48] "Stolen Car" (4:19)
09 [38:07] "Central Reservation" (5:30)
10 [43:37] "Touch Me With Your Love" (5:58)
11 [49:35] "I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine" (5:09)
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After cops raided #occupysf and tossed their stuff in the dump, garbage workers returned it to the protesters, saying "we r 99 % too"
Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work
Bear in mind that an iPad is a magazine that doesn't fold (and isn't there something a little sad that the kid doesn't seem to enjoy the cheaper things in life?) Spaceboy at that age loved playing with cardboard tubes and the like...
Occupy Wall Street's Liberty Plaza Technically A 'Bonus Plaza', Not Private Property
Photo: Mat McDermott
In case your wondering how a private company, Brookfield, can claim authority to kick out Occupy Wall Street from Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) so that it can be cleaned, it's important to understand the legal status of the space. Benjamin Shepard, an Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, tells us that Liberty Plaza is technically a "bonus plaza"--a green space required under the zoning regulations governing the nearby 1 Liberty Plaza building. In a piece from September 28th on his blog, Shepard quotes Anne Schwartz:
There are 503 such privately-owned "public spaces" in 320 buildings in New York...They owe their existence to zoning laws, passed in 1962 and amended numerous times since, that allowed developers to build taller structures, in exchange for creating and maintaining plazas, atriums, passageways, and other spaces, all supposedly open to the public. Together, they amount to 82 acres, one-tenth the size of Central Park. In exchange, developers were permitted to add on an extra 16 million square feet of floor space.The piece goes on to say, because these spaces were essentially given to the public in exchange for zoning concessions, they should be treated as public space. Shepard sums up:
If the city chooses to push occupants out of the space on the grounds that it is privately owned, they will not be steady ground. Zuccotti Park was created in exchange for increased height for 1 Liberty Plaza the building just to the north of the Park. Of course, the tenants of 1 Liberty Plaza do not want us to know the public helped pay for their digs. They include Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Canada, as well as NASDQ Headquarters, among others. There is a reason Occupy Wall Street chose this location. Few of these corporations are interested in an extended discussion of democracy in New York City, such as those taking shape in the public space known as Zuccotti Park. But it is just what they will have if they work with the NYPD to evict the members of Occupy Wall Street from the bonus plaza known as Zuccotti Park.All which shifts the burden back onto the city itself, in claiming responsibility for the cleaning/eviction coming tomorrow morning.
And judging by the long list of rules about what's prohibited in NYC parks--which includes many of the same things as in Brookfield's list (including camping, obstruction of sitting areas, etc, etc)--there's many a regulation that could be used to kick protestors out of spaces whose public status is not in doubt.
Matthew McDermott @'treehugger'
Occupy Wall Street: Protesters anger at 'eviction' move
How to use a pill wheel filter
Solid material and impurities can cause vein damage. This risk can be reduced by using a wheel filter after dissolving the drug. Using the right wheel filter can also filter out bacteria and lessen the chances of infection.
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When these pill filters first hit the scene down in Frankston when I was living there a number of years ago, there was anecdotal evidence that they were making people sick. It turned out that people were re-using them allowing bacteria to grow between hits. They are of course a single use device and are of the utmost importance if people are going to shoot up pills such as Bupe.
They are available at a small cost at your local needle exchange here in Australia.
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When these pill filters first hit the scene down in Frankston when I was living there a number of years ago, there was anecdotal evidence that they were making people sick. It turned out that people were re-using them allowing bacteria to grow between hits. They are of course a single use device and are of the utmost importance if people are going to shoot up pills such as Bupe.
They are available at a small cost at your local needle exchange here in Australia.
Running the Risk: Syringe Exchange in the South
Sara (alias) is a 35-year-old woman attending school for a Master’s in Public Health, but she has an unusual side job: running an underground syringe exchange program (SEP) in North Carolina. SEPs provide sterile syringes to drug users, diabetics, transgender people and any individual who uses syringes for medical issues, in exchange for used syringes which may potentially be contaminated with HIV or hepatitis. Sara was recently jailed for possession of a syringe inside a biohazard container, which she'd collected from a drug user in order to dispose of it safely. North Carolina laws against syringe possession make even a good act such as cleaning dirty needles out of our communities illegal. But Sara continues to put herself at risk to protect others from diseases that can be transferred from used syringes, such as HIV and hepatitis C.
“When I was 28 I got an MRSA staph infection from re-using my own syringes,” says Sara. “I was a heroin addict at the time, so I was afraid to see a doctor. By the time I checked into the hospital the infection was pretty bad. The doctors told me I had hepatitis C and a staph infection, but they didn’t explain what that meant. I was terrified and confused.”
As Sara later learned, hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver transmitted through blood contact, such as shared syringes, crack/meth pipes, cookers, drug filters, sex, tattoos, piercings or shared toiletries. Sara was lucky; she was treated with interferon drugs and the virus went into remission after a year of treatment. Many people however, cannot get treated for hepatitis C due to the cost of treatment, not being able to deal with the treatment’s side effects, or not responding to the treatment, which may lead to liver cancer, liver failure and death. This is a serious problem, since according to the world hepatitis alliance, 1 in 12 people has hepatitis B or C.
In 2008 Sara connected with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (www.nchrc.net) and learned to help protect herself and others from hepatitis C by using sterile drug equipment and condoms. Within NCHRC, Sara found people who cared about her as a person rather than a criminal, and didn’t force her to quit her addiction before she was ready. Sara decided to operate an underground SEP to help protect others against blood borne diseases.
“There’s also a lot of misinformation about hepatitis C,” says Sara. “People think that if they sleep with someone, they might as well shoot with that person too. They don’t realize that hepatitis C is spread through more easily through shared syringes and injection supplies than through sex.”
Through the SEP, Sara provides sterile syringes, cookers, cottons, tourniquets, sterile water and bleach kits to injection users, as well as spark plugs to crack smokers to put on top of their pipes to prevent blood exposures. As HIV and hepatitis can be spread through re-using any drug equipment, she teaches drug users use new equipment for each drug-using even or to sterilize the equipment they use, not just syringes. This is because hepatitis and HIV can live in drug cookers, drug filters (such as cotton), shared sterile water and tourniquets. Sara connects with new clients through word of mouth and a network of drug dealers and she gives sterile equipment and information to current drug users. She even saves lives by providing drug users with naloxone, a drug that blocks opiates to the brain and stops drug overdose. This is important in North Carolina since drug overdose is the number four killer of people aged 18-49.
It’s dangerous to run a syringe exchange program in North Carolina,” says Sara, “but I do it because I want to help others avoid the fear and confusion I experienced in the hospital and prevent them from getting exposed to life threatening diseases.”
Until North Carolina decriminalizes syringes, Sara and others will continue to put themselves at risk to help others. If you’d like to help, please contact your legislators and let them know you support syringe decriminalization legislation.
NC Harm Reduction Coalition @'Daily Kos'
“When I was 28 I got an MRSA staph infection from re-using my own syringes,” says Sara. “I was a heroin addict at the time, so I was afraid to see a doctor. By the time I checked into the hospital the infection was pretty bad. The doctors told me I had hepatitis C and a staph infection, but they didn’t explain what that meant. I was terrified and confused.”
As Sara later learned, hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver transmitted through blood contact, such as shared syringes, crack/meth pipes, cookers, drug filters, sex, tattoos, piercings or shared toiletries. Sara was lucky; she was treated with interferon drugs and the virus went into remission after a year of treatment. Many people however, cannot get treated for hepatitis C due to the cost of treatment, not being able to deal with the treatment’s side effects, or not responding to the treatment, which may lead to liver cancer, liver failure and death. This is a serious problem, since according to the world hepatitis alliance, 1 in 12 people has hepatitis B or C.
In 2008 Sara connected with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (www.nchrc.net) and learned to help protect herself and others from hepatitis C by using sterile drug equipment and condoms. Within NCHRC, Sara found people who cared about her as a person rather than a criminal, and didn’t force her to quit her addiction before she was ready. Sara decided to operate an underground SEP to help protect others against blood borne diseases.
“There’s also a lot of misinformation about hepatitis C,” says Sara. “People think that if they sleep with someone, they might as well shoot with that person too. They don’t realize that hepatitis C is spread through more easily through shared syringes and injection supplies than through sex.”
Through the SEP, Sara provides sterile syringes, cookers, cottons, tourniquets, sterile water and bleach kits to injection users, as well as spark plugs to crack smokers to put on top of their pipes to prevent blood exposures. As HIV and hepatitis can be spread through re-using any drug equipment, she teaches drug users use new equipment for each drug-using even or to sterilize the equipment they use, not just syringes. This is because hepatitis and HIV can live in drug cookers, drug filters (such as cotton), shared sterile water and tourniquets. Sara connects with new clients through word of mouth and a network of drug dealers and she gives sterile equipment and information to current drug users. She even saves lives by providing drug users with naloxone, a drug that blocks opiates to the brain and stops drug overdose. This is important in North Carolina since drug overdose is the number four killer of people aged 18-49.
It’s dangerous to run a syringe exchange program in North Carolina,” says Sara, “but I do it because I want to help others avoid the fear and confusion I experienced in the hospital and prevent them from getting exposed to life threatening diseases.”
Until North Carolina decriminalizes syringes, Sara and others will continue to put themselves at risk to help others. If you’d like to help, please contact your legislators and let them know you support syringe decriminalization legislation.
NC Harm Reduction Coalition @'Daily Kos'
The Banks Are Made of Marble
Over the weekend, a CBS News blogger covering the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations happened on someone singing “The Banks are Made of Marble,” a tune Pete Seeger and The Weavers covered.
This simple little song — which so nicely captures the spirit of the music the Weavers, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie made — is everywhere in this movement. Maybe Occupy Wall Street will bring about a resurgence of simple little songs like this — songs that tell the truth about people’s lives, songs that everybody can sing.
And maybe that’s why the story of the 1913 Massacre resonates more powerfully now than ever before. For Woody, what happened at Italian Hall in 1913 was a story about what was happening in America in the 1930s and 1940s, a story about “greed for money” and the destruction it leaves in its wake.
And greed is what the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are all about: it’s almost as if these protests are the long-awaited answer to Gordon Gekko’s infamous “Greed is good.”
The connections are there, waiting to be made; it’s 1913 or 1937 or 1941 all over again. That’s why for Arlo Guthrie, the Italian Hall disaster as captured in Woody’s song is almost an archetypal event, or at least an event that helps us (still) understand “who we are and where we came from”; it gains and gathers meaning, tying past to present. As he says at one point in the film:
@'1913 Massacre'
The banks are made of marbleThis was an encore performance, of sorts: Peter Yarrow (of Peter Paul and Mary fame) sang the tune for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators last weekend. People have been tweeting links to the song on YouTube; they were singing the song at Occupy Cincinnati.
With a guard at every door
And the vaults are stuffed with silver
That the miner sweated for…
This simple little song — which so nicely captures the spirit of the music the Weavers, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie made — is everywhere in this movement. Maybe Occupy Wall Street will bring about a resurgence of simple little songs like this — songs that tell the truth about people’s lives, songs that everybody can sing.
And maybe that’s why the story of the 1913 Massacre resonates more powerfully now than ever before. For Woody, what happened at Italian Hall in 1913 was a story about what was happening in America in the 1930s and 1940s, a story about “greed for money” and the destruction it leaves in its wake.
And greed is what the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are all about: it’s almost as if these protests are the long-awaited answer to Gordon Gekko’s infamous “Greed is good.”
The connections are there, waiting to be made; it’s 1913 or 1937 or 1941 all over again. That’s why for Arlo Guthrie, the Italian Hall disaster as captured in Woody’s song is almost an archetypal event, or at least an event that helps us (still) understand “who we are and where we came from”; it gains and gathers meaning, tying past to present. As he says at one point in the film:
These events are like stones in a pond that have waves that go way into the future. This is where I think my dad was at his best: thinking about these things, wondering about them.The story of what happened in Calumet is not just a story about what happened in 1913. That’s a very important story, because it left an indelible mark on many people’s lives, on a whole town, on the country. But as many people have said to us after watching the film, the real “massacre” in the town and in people’s lives seems to have taken place — or continued — long after the 1913 event. And now, it appears, the event is still unfolding, 100 years after the fact.
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Inside Obama's War Room
President Barack Obama and Vice President JoeBiden attend a meeting on Libya in the Situation Room of the White House. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
On the afternoon of monday, March 14th, the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy stood nervously in the lounge of Le Bourget Airport on the outskirts of Paris, waiting for a private jet carrying a lone Libyan rebel to land. At 62, Lévy is one of France's most famous writers and provocateurs, a regular fixture in the tabloids, where he's known simply as BHL. He rarely goes a month without controversy – whether defending the reputations of accused sex offenders like Roman Polanski and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or waging one-man foreign-policy campaigns that usually end in failure. In 1993, he tried unsuccessfully to persuade President François Mitterrand to intervene in the Balkans. In 2001, he personally arranged for Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud to meet with President Jacques Chirac, only to have the French Foreign Ministry scuttle the trip for fear of angering the Taliban. Now, as he anxiously paced the airport lounge, he was embarking on what would turn out to be one of the most audacious and improbable feats of amateur diplomacy in modern history.Wearing his trademark outfit – designer suit, no tie, white shirt unbuttoned to reveal a deeply tanned chest – Lévy was waiting for the arrival of Mahmoud Jibril, the leader of the Libyan rebels who had been fighting for three weeks to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi. Lévy had secretly helped arrange for a meeting in Paris later that day between Jibril and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Prodded by Lévy, France had granted formal recognition to the Libyan opposition, known as the National Transitional Council. But no other European country had followed France's lead, and the uprising now appeared in danger of being crushed by Qaddafi, who had just launched an all-out military counteroffensive. Both Lévy and Jibril believed that getting the support of the Americans was the rebels' last hope. "If he doesn't succeed with Clinton," Lévy thought, "all we achieved in France this past week will have been for nothing."
But the meeting with Clinton had already run into a serious snag. Jibril, a 58-year-old political scientist who once taught at the University of Pittsburgh, had been detained at customs. Though he had been received in the Élysée Palace only days before for a meeting Lévy had arranged with President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jibril did not have official clearance to re-enter France. As the hours ticked away, the 5 p.m. time slot for the meeting with Clinton came and went. Lévy scrambled to reschedule. "At six she had a meeting with Sarkozy, at eight was a dinner or something with the G8," he told me recently in St. Paul de Vence, his home in the south of France. "It was very complicated." The consequences of the delay, he feared, could be catastrophic.
After Jibril finally cleared customs, Lévy succeeded in getting Clinton's last free moment of the night before she flew on to Cairo – 10 p.m. in her hotel suite. Lévy and Jibril took a black Mercedes sedan from the Raphael, the luxury hotel in Paris where Lévy lives when in the city, to the Westin, where Clinton was staying.
Forty-five minutes later, Jibril emerged from the meeting. "He goes out furious, he goes out fuming," Lévy recalls. "He was convinced he had failed." Coached by Lévy, Jibril had urged Clinton to support a no-fly zone, arm the rebels and launch attacks on Qaddafi's army. If the U.S. failed to intervene, he warned, there would be mass killings, just as there had been after Bill Clinton failed to take action in Rwanda and the Balkans in the 1990s. But Hillary appeared unmoved by the plea, and Jibril was distraught. To avoid reporters who were traveling with Clinton, Jibril left the hotel through a back entrance.
Lévy and Jibril returned to the Raphael. At 1 a.m., they sat down to write a press release – a desperate call for support that was, Lévy says, "implicitly addressed to the Americans." "Friends around the world!" it implored, "Libya's freedom is in danger of death – come to our rescue... Don't let the Arab Spring die in Benghazi." They finished an hour later, but decided to hold off until morning before hitting SEND. Jibril was scheduled to fly back to Qatar, where the National Transitional Council had set up a base of operations. "Then we waited," Lévy told me. What, he wondered before going to sleep that night, would President Obama do...?
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Michael Hastings @'Rolling Stone'
EdwynCollins Edwyn Collins
Here's @vic_godard 's bio : Vic Godard is a vocalist, Subway Sect front man, songwriter & postman. Add: genius.
Photojournalism Behind the Scenes
Presentation of Photojournalism Behind the Scenes, an auto-critical photo essay showing the paradoxes of conflict-image production and considering the role of the photographer in the events.
This project was awarded the Photodreaming Contest organized by Forma Foundation in which I was then selected by Denis Curti, the director of Contrasto (the major photo-agency in Italy, which represents Magnum's work in the country and for which the top Italian photographers work) to shoot an assignment for the prestigious agency.
rubensalvadori.com
for publications or any other info and comment contact me at info@rubensalvadori.com
This project was awarded the Photodreaming Contest organized by Forma Foundation in which I was then selected by Denis Curti, the director of Contrasto (the major photo-agency in Italy, which represents Magnum's work in the country and for which the top Italian photographers work) to shoot an assignment for the prestigious agency.
rubensalvadori.com
for publications or any other info and comment contact me at info@rubensalvadori.com
Exposing the 'Invisible Photographer' Behind Conflict Journalism
A Closer Look at the Haqqani Anniversary Attack on American-Afghan Outposts
American forces fired 105-millimeter artillery toward an insurgent rocket position near the Pakistan border after being attacked on the 10th anniversary of the Afghan war.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE ORGUN-E, Afghanistan – Last Friday, on the 10th anniversary of the start of the Afghan war, at least several dozen fighters from the Haqqani insurgent network launched a complex attack against multiple American-Afghan outposts near the Pakistan border.Firing scores of high-explosive rockets and mortar rounds, they struck nearly simultaneously at outposts occupied by the 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, and, using a tactic that has succeeded elsewhere, they tried to breach one of the positions with a suicide truck bomb and a contingent of gunmen on foot.
The significance of the attack was, as is often the case, a matter of uncertainty and dispute. The American-led NATO command framed the Haqqani attack as a failure. In the tactical sense this might be so. For all of the effort, the attackers managed to wound only one American soldier, and his wounds were not serious. American machine guns, artillery, attack helicopters and aircraft, firing munitions throughout much of the day, stopped the advancing fighters short of an outpost they apparently had hoped to overrun.
But as a strategic matter, the attack came with a message some soldiers found startling, if grudgingly so. It showed that even after the Pentagon has had its troop levels at a peak for two full so-called fighting seasons, the insurgents who crisscross between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained able to plan complicated attacks and to mass fighters and weapons against multiple American bases at once. And their rocket and mortar fire was accurate. Many rounds, fired from the distance, struck squarely within the outposts – a feat that suggested a considerable degree of training and skill.
Moreover, though all of the Haqqani firing positions were within Afghanistan, some of them were within hundreds of yards of the border with Pakistan – a fact pointing toward the sanctuary from where, soldiers said, the coordinated assault was likely planned and where the dozens of 107-millimeter rockets fired against the American soldiers were probably acquired.
And then there was this question: What might happen in a similar attack against Afghan outposts without American military presence?
The relative weakness of the Afghan security forces was on full display. This battle was fought with American communications networks and American firepower. The distant Haqqani firing positions and an apparent cluster of Haqqani fighters were stopped or silenced by a suite of modern American weapons systems — helicopter gunships, artillery, attack aircraft and GPS-guided bombs — that the Afghans either do not possess or do not know how to use. One example: Lt. Col. John V. Meyer, the battalion’s commander, said that 14,000 pounds of munitions were dropped from aircraft during the daylong fight.
(At Forward Operating Base Tillman, where the photographer Tyler Hicks and I were present for the fighting, the Afghan soldiers did not participate at all. As the rockets came in and American officers and noncommissioned officers tracked the battle in an operations room, and coordinated and calibrated their return fire from the gun line, the Afghan Army representatives in the room excused themselves, left the room for roughly 30 minutes and returned with plates of food. Beyond that poorly timed display of appetite, they did nothing further that could be observed.)
But for the moment, let’s set the larger analysis aside, and be reminded of something else. It is one of the things that conventional infantry soldiers are often told, and sometimes get to see: that there are moments in war when one or two alert people, properly equipped and willing to act, can determine the local outcome of a fight...
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C.J. Chivers @'NY Times'
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♪♫ DAM - Letter From A Prison Cell
"A Letter From a Prison Cell"
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"رسالة من زنزانة"
دام تستضيف تريو جبران، بشار خليفة، نبال ملشي وإبراهيم ساق الله.
تضامناً مع الحركة الأسيرة ومعركة الأمعاء الخاوية
"دام" تطلق أغنية: رسالة من زنزانة بإستضافة الثلاثي جبران وبشار خليفة
تضامناً مع الأسرى الفلسطينيين ومعركة "الأمعاء الخاوية"، تطلق فرقة "الدام" الفلسطينية أغنية بعنوان "رسالة من زنزانة" بإستضافة الثلاثي جبران والموسيقي بشار خليفة وهي أغنية كان من المفترض الاحتفاظ بها لألبوم الفرقة الثاني.
إلا أن تضامناً مع الحركة الأسيرة وإضرابهم عن الطعام منذ 27 أيلول الماضي من أجل نيل حقوقهم داخل السجون الإسرائيلية، تهدي فرقة "الدام" هذه الأغنية التي تجسد معاناة الأسرى وتصفها بشكل شخصي وتعترض على تلخيص هذه المعاناة كمجرد أرقام.
تتكون الأغنية من ثلاث قصص عبارة عن ثلاث رسالة أُرسلت من رطوبة الزنزانة إلى العالم، فنحن كفرقة "الدام"، كأفراد وكشعب مع الأسرى في معركتهم وفي هذه المعركة الكبرى من أجل الحريّة.
ملاحظة: نود شكر مؤسسة "الضمير" على تزويدنا ودعمنا بالمراجع التي تتضمن الكتب، المقالات والقصص كي يكون بمقدورنا ترجمة هذه المعلومات إلى أغنية راب.
اسم الأغنية: "رسالة من زنزانة"
دام تستضيف تريو جبران، بشار خليفة، نبال ملشي وإبراهيم ساق الله.
كلمات: "دام"
إنتاج : "دام" وعنان قسيم
عود: تريو جبران
إيقاع: بشار خليفة
مؤسسة "الضمير": www.addameer.org
Supporting the Palestinians political prisoners and their struggle
DAM releases: "A Letter From a Prison Cell"
"A Letter From a Prison Cell" is DAM's first single from their new album, featuring Trio Joubran, Bachar Khalifé., Nibal Malshi and Ibrahim Sakallah. We are releasing this song earlier than planned in support of the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike. We are adding our voices to their call for justice and demands for their legal rights.
"A Letter From a Prison Cell" tells the stories of three prisoners who refuse to be ignored and become another statistic. They have written letters to the outside world and the song voices those words.
We would like to thank the organization for prisoner rights "Addameer - www.addameer.org" for providing us with references such as prisoner letters, articles and books to help us write our song.
"A Letter From a Prison Cell"
DAM ft Trio Joubran, Bachar Khalifé, Nibal Malshi and Ibrahim Sakallah
Written by : DAM
Produced by : DAM & Anan Kusseim
Oud: Trio Joubran
percussions : Bachar Khalifé.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Air Force Insists: Drone Cockpit Virus Just a ‘Nuisance’
The U.S. Air Force revealed new details Wednesday about the virus that’s been infecting the remote cockpits of its drone fleet — and insisted, despite reports from their own personnel, that the infection was properly and easily contained.
In a statement — the military’s first official, on-the-record acknowledgement of the virus — the Air Force insisted that the malware was “more of a nuisance than an operational threat.” The ability of drone pilots to remotely fly the aircraft from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada “remained secure throughout the incident.”The armed drone has become America’s weapon and surveillance tool of choice in warzones from Afghanistan to Pakistan to Yemen. So when Danger Room reported on Friday that Creech security specialists had spent the last two weeks fighting off an infection in the drones’ remote cockpits, there was an almost instantaneous media uproar.
It also caught off guard the 24th Air Force, the unit that’s supposed to be in charge of the air service’s cybersecurity, multiple sources involved with Air Force network operations told Danger Room. “When your article came out,” one of those sources said. “it was like, ‘What is this?’”
In its Wednesday statement (.docx), the Air Force said that was flat wrong — that the 24th knew all along...
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